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Frequency Effects on Japanese EFL Learners’ Perception of Morphologically Complex Words
Looking back over the history of the theory of generative linguistics, we notice that the structure of the lexicon or the lexical component of the grammar, which was once considered mere storage filled with unpredictable information, has drawn a number of researchers’ attention since early 1970s.
A Validation Study on the English language test in a Japanese Nationwide University Entrance Examination
The present study employs validation study on the English language test of the Japanese nationwide university entrance examination- the Joint First Achievement Test (JFSAT). Two studies are presented. The first examines the reliability and concurrent validity of the JFSAT-English test.
Teaching Korean University Writing Class: Balancing the Process and the Genre Approach
This paper comes out of concerns about teaching English writing to Korean university students. This study points out four problems in university writing classes: first, a heavy emphasis on grammatical form; second, overemphasis on final product; third, lack of genre-specific writing across the curriculum; and fourth, the need for more diverse types of feedback.
A Mutual Learning Experience: Collaborative Journaling between A Nonnative-Speaker Intern and Native- Speaker Cooperating-Teacher
Teaching journals have been used in the TESOL field for both preservice and inservice teachers to promote reflection and awareness and to explore their teaching beliefs and practices. Although the various benefits of teaching journals have been reported on previously, the use of collaborative teaching journals has not received much research attention in the field.
Spoken Features of Dialogue Journal Writing
This paper uses a student-generated sample of written discourse from a dialogue journal writing project as a means of exploring the interface between written and spoken language. The written sample yields marked similarities with spoken language such as unplanned discourse, a clear interlocutory style and vocabulary selection.
A Tale of Two Mainland Chinese English Learners
This paper reports a biographic enquiry of two tertiary English learners from mainland China and attempts to capture the developmental processes of their language learning approaches. Through sharing their past language learning experiences, two Chinese learners verbalized their struggles in language learning and revealed the deep impact that their learning settings had on their perceptions of self and language learning.
Principles of Instructed Language Learning
We need to look deeply at times into the specific needs of learners in Asia and the Pacific region who we cannot forget are still very much living in local contexts -not only an evidently increasingly global one. That being said, there is much to learn from these studies that can be borrowed and lent across a number of frontiers.
The Computer and Language Teaching
The advance in technology has made it quite possible to take advantage of many modern facilities in different facets of communication. The language learning/teaching process is no exception, since language in its strict technical sense is a means of communication.
Taking the First Step – CLT Teacher Training in Gifu, Japan
Despite widespread negativity regarding the appropriacy and applicability of the communicative approach to Asian classrooms, educational bodies in this region appear resolutely intent on pushing through with its introduction.
A New Approach to Teaching English as a Foreign Language: The Bottom-Up Approach
Much has been said and written over the years about the merit or other of the traditional teaching methods. Most language teaching methods have closely adhered to the ad hoc top-to-bottom listening-speaking-reading-writing order (e.g. the Audio-lingual Method) or have been single-faceted methods which sacrifice many parts of language in favour of one part (e.g. the Reading Method).
